rivera: panthers' growth apparent

[nosuchthingasapanther]

you gotta love how he's direct.

Q: Was safety a sore spot for you last year?

It was for us. In what you do defensively, you have to have a guy step up. But at the same time, you’ve also go to have a guy in front of them that’s a communicator. I love Dan Connor, but Dan Connor’s not a communicator. He’s a hard-nosed, grindstone type guy. And that was tough on our safeties. But now you’ve got Jon Beason, who communicates like you can’t believe. You’ve got Luke Kuechly, who shows he knows how to communicate. So right through the middle of our defense we’ve gotten better. Now, knock on wood, we stay healthy. Because that’s probably the biggest problem we had more so than anything on defense really was getting healthy. Once the injuries started coming, we had to change the personality of how we wanted to do things and what we wanted to do. Now we have something where for the last five weeks, we’ve been able to work on this in the classroom (portion of OTAs).

the rest...

[nosuchthingasapanther]

shame on me. i didn't notice how old this article was.

if it's been posted before, then there's nothing to see here. carry on.

[TANTRIC-NINJA]

Still better than reading about Hardy speeding. Sometimes bringing back an old article is a highlight in the off season.

[panther4life]

shame on me. i didn't notice how old this article was.

if it's been posted before, then there's nothing to see here. carry on.

no big deal, the same it is what it is interview has been posted on here 1000 times